Chan was struck by a minivan in Northeast Philadelphia while on his police motorcycle just after 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 3. along a section of Rhawn Street that runs between Roosevelt Boulevard and Frankford Avenue.

Chopper 6 over procession to hospital for injured motorcycle officer in Northeast Philadelphia on January 3, 2019.

Ross said although Chan was headed to his headquarters, he was on his marked cycle, so he would consider him on-duty.

Chan was very active in police recruiting. He was featured in a police recruiting video where he recalled as a boy the police officers who came into his parent's restaurant at 10th and Race streets to get something to eat.

"I said to them, 'I want to become a police officer,'" Chan said in the video.

He later would become a member of the department's elite Highway Patrol Unit. The highly decorated officer would also become a valuable advocate in the department's minority recruiting efforts.

"You love working with people, you love doing good things for people, this is the best job you could do. It's the best," Chan said in the recruiting video.